Day 101 of 113

Day 101: Hyped About Haircuts

On a Monday morning at a publishing house in Leszno, Mariola (A), a senior editor, asks Marlena (B), the new editorial assistant, for help with a text from her son after a row at Sunday dinner.

How to study this lesson 3 steps
  1. Read the situation under the title. It says who is talking and how they know each other, which decides how politely they speak.
  2. Read the dialogue line by line with its translation, until every line makes sense. Point at (or tap) a Polish word to see what it means.
  3. Spend at least 30 minutes listening to native Polish, for example from the Resources page. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it yet.

Dialogue

Audio recordings are on the way. For now, each lesson is the dialogue with its English translation.

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  1. A

    Pani Marleno, ma pani chwilę? Potrzebuję tłumaczki, ale nie z angielskiego, tylko z polskiego na polski.

    Marlena, have you got a minute? I need a translator, only not from English: from Polish into Polish.

  2. B

    Jasne, pani redaktor. Kolejny debiutant, który pisze tak, jakby mu płacili od wykrzyknika?

    Of course. Another first-time author who writes as if he's paid by the exclamation mark?

  3. A

    Gorzej, mój syn. Wczoraj przy obiedzie oznajmił, że rzuca prawo i otwiera barbershop. Pokłóciliśmy się, a rano przyszedł taki esemes.

    Worse: my son. Yesterday at dinner he announced that he's dropping out of law and opening a barbershop. We had a row, and this morning this text arrived.

  4. B

    Pokaże mi pani? Obiecuję, że nie będę się śmiać.

    Will you show me? I promise not to laugh.

  5. A

    Proszę: „Mamo sorry za wczoraj był przypał ale jaram się tym na maksa ogarnę biznesplan i pogadamy nara”. Ani jednego przecinka!

    Here: 'Mum sorry about yesterday it was cringe but I'm totally hyped about this I'll sort out a business plan and we'll talk laters'. Not a single comma!

  6. B

    Przecinki to najmniejszy problem. „Przypał” to wstyd, „jaram się”, że mu zależy, a „ogarnę”, że się przygotuje. Czyli przeprasza i chce rozmawiać.

    The commas are the least of it. 'Cringe' means he's embarrassed, 'hyped' that it matters to him, and 'sort out' that he'll prepare. So he's apologising and he wants to talk.

  7. A

    Gdyby mi to był powiedział spokojnie, a nie między rosołem a schabowym, byłabym wysłuchała go do końca.

    Had he told me calmly, and not between the chicken soup and the pork chops, I would have heard him out.

  8. B

    Mogę o coś zapytać? Pani od dziecka marzyła o tym, żeby poprawiać cudze przecinki?

    Can I ask you something? Did you dream of correcting other people's commas ever since you were little?

  9. A

    Skąd, miałam być lekarką! Rzuciłam medycynę na drugim roku, a mama nie odzywała się do mnie aż do Wigilii. Rety, historia się powtarza.

    Goodness, no, I was meant to be a doctor! I dropped out of medicine in my second year, and my mum didn't speak to me right up to Christmas Eve. Heavens, history's repeating itself.

  10. B

    Czyli wie pani, jak to wygląda z drugiej strony stołu. A z niedoszłej lekarki wyrosła całkiem niezła redaktorka.

    So you know what it looks like from the other side of the table. And the would-be doctor grew into a pretty good editor.

  11. A

    Byłabym zapomniała o tym, gdyby nie pani. Jak mu odpisać, żeby wiedział, że się nie gniewam, ale biznesplan sprawdzę jak korektę?

    I'd have forgotten all about that, if it weren't for you. How do I answer him so he knows I'm not angry, but I'll go over that business plan like a set of proofs?

  12. B

    Jego językiem: „Spoko, pogadamy, ale biznesplan ma być sztos”. Tylko „nara” niech pani zostawi jemu, bo od mamy to byłby przypał.

    In his language: 'Chill, we'll talk, but the business plan had better be sick.' Only leave 'laters' to him, because from his mum that would be cringe.

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